Tacy Atkinson

Tacy Atkinson (July 3, 1870 – December 1, 1937) was an American Christian missionary who served in the Ottoman Empire during World War I and the Armenian genocide.

During her years in Oregon, she also continued her education, ultimately graduating from Pacific University in 1899, at the age of twenty-nine.

She went to a hospital in San Francisco for treatment of the non-malignant mass, where she met her future husband Herbert Atkinson, a medical intern.

Herbert Atkinson and Tacy Wilkson married in San Rafael, California, on July 7, 1901, shortly after her thirty-first birthday.

Tacy and Herbert eventually joined the Christian missionary movement and arrived in Kharpert in the Ottoman Empire in 1902.

The Atkinsons remained in Kharpert until August 19, 1908, when they returned to the United States to raise funds for the construction of a new hospital.

[2] During the Armenian genocide, which started in 1915, Atkinson was stationed in the Kharpert where she was a participant of the Christian missionary movement there.

[3] However, Atkinson was reluctant to describe the events in full because she feared that the Turkish authorities might uncover her diary.

The German, the Turk and the devil made a triple alliance not to be equalled in the world for cold blooded hellishness.